Re: CHAT: R: Italian Particles
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 18, 2000, 19:00 |
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At 2:30 pm +0200 17/4/00, Mangiat wrote:
>Doug wrote:
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>>Object: Italian Particles
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>Methinks this subject isn't really correct:
Methinks you're correct - the subject is misleading.
>in Italian (=Tuscanian) we don't
>have these particles; they're caratteristic of some Northern Italian
>dialects.
....which are not regarded _linguistically_ as Italian! Northern Italian
dialects in the political sense only. AFAIK this phenomenon is found only
in Friulan (and other RhetoRomance dialects?) and in the so-called
GalloItalic dialects (Piedmontese, Milanese etc).
They are not, as Luca rightly says, characteristic of standard Italian
(i.e. "Tuscan as spoken by Romans") nor AFAIK of any of the various
dialects found in central or southern Italy.
Ray.
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